Obituary Record

A profusion of delicate and fragrant flowers marked the newly-made mound at Cedar Rest Cemetery Tuesday afternoon at which place and time the remains of Miss Emma Ladner had been consigned to the keeping of mother earth, under the ingratiating shade of wide-spreading boughs of an oak centuries old.

The Rev. Leo F. Fahey, assistant pastor church of Our Lady of the Gulf, and personal friend of the family, has previously officiated at the home of the deceased in Citizen street, followed by the usual ceremony at the church and finally at the last rites in the city of the dead where the majority gone before rest in peaceful and hallowed sleep.

Miss Ladner was a member of one of the oldest and outstanding families in this section of Hancock county. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Delmas Ladner. She was a native of Bay St. Louis, aged 75 years. The end came after an illness of some ten days.

She is survived by one sister, Mrs. (Widow) Joseph L. Favre, Bay St. Louis; two brothers, Judge Alcide Ladner of this city and by Victor Ladner resident of Lakeshore, Miss. She was an aunt to Alphonse G. Favre, clerk of the courts of Hancock county. Only last September she lost a brother Cyril Ladner, with whom she made her home at the old family homestead in Citizen street. His passing away left an aching void in the home, although her relatives and urged her living with them. But true to tradition that makes for home ties and everlasting sentiment, she preferred to live in the memories of the dear old place that she called and knew as home all her life. Here it was that mother, father, brothers and sisters and other relatives had lived and with them she shared the joys and sorrows as well that come to one's life. She cherished the hallowed memories and lived them over again.

Miss Ladner was a devout member of the Catholic church and lived as such. Her long life was filled with the glory of good and kindly deeds. Her hands folded, she had finished her labors. A long life had been worthily spent and it well may be said the world was made better by her having lived.

Source: Sea Coast Echo 07/24/1936